[QUOTE=Nutt007;36053406]Not old, not world shaking yet. But absolutely history, happening right now.
[IMG]http://i.space.com/images/i/17720/i02/spacex-falcon-9-launch.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Why is this so ground breaking?
denver post has some EXCELLENT photoblogs
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[QUOTE=jaykray;36054067]Why is this so ground breaking?[/QUOTE]
So far it isn't. It hopefully will be in about 5 days.
Aiming to be the first privately developed spacecraft to dock with the ISS, possibly paving the way for cheaper spaceflight.
I agree, that picture didn't really shake the world. It's a falcon 9 taking off, which has been done before.
[QUOTE=jaykray;36054067]Why is this so ground breaking?[/QUOTE]
It's the first commercial rocket flying to the ISS, meaning that soon more companies will notice the money that can be obtained by flying cargo into space, and hopefully a secon space race will ensue.
[img]http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01299/scott-journal_1299135i.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.dailywhat.org.uk/media/44598/captain%20scott%20and%20his%20polar%20party.jpg[/img]
Photos taken of Robert Scott and his team on their disasterous Terra Nova Expedition.
Although there are many depressing parts to this story, I'm just gonna show you Scott's last written words.
[quote]"We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint, but bow to the will of Providence, determined still to do our best to the last ... Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for."[/quote]
[QUOTE=jaykray;36054067]Why is this so ground breaking?[/QUOTE]
Visit the KSP thread and you'll know why.
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The entrance to the infamous Hanoi Hilton, a North Vietnamese controlled building used to torture and interrogate servicemen during the Vietnam war.
[QUOTE=DrasarSalman;36054605]Visit the KSP thread and you'll know why.[/QUOTE]
A lot of the images in the KSP thread shook the world. As in, they hit the ground so hard that they caused Kerbinquakes.
Also, here's something everyone might find interesting. It's a photo of the same Vietcong commander moments before his execution.
[img]http://uppix.net/7/e/6/3ef584f33f0e56bc1deba84dcd211.jpg[/img]
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Oh dang, didn't realize it was late.
I finally found content!
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/L.N.Tolstoy_Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg[/img]
[B]This is Leo Tolstoy[/B], best known as the author of [I]War and Peace[/I] and [I]Anna Karenina[/I]. This is the only colour photo known to have been taken of him. The guy who took the picture is Prokudin Gorsky, a Russian photographer known to have taken all kinds of magnificant colour images.
[url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/L.N.Tolstoy_Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg[/url]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Group_of_workers_harvesting_tea_Chakva_Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg/685px-Group_of_workers_harvesting_tea_Chakva_Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg[/img]
Greek women working at the harvest in Georgia. There still exists today a small minority of Greek speakers in the Caucasus Mountains from the time of the Byzantine Empire. 1905-1915.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Sunni_Muslim_man_wearing_traditional_dress_and_headgear.jpg/749px-Sunni_Muslim_man_wearing_traditional_dress_and_headgear.jpg[/img]
A Dagestani man, circa 1904. [I]"You call that a knife? -THIS- is a knife."[/I]
Its true that it depends where the bullet hits, as earlier in this thread when the man committed suicide on live TV he seemed to die pretty much instantly. Whereas on the execution video even after being shot from close range in the face and torso the man is still attempting to breathe.
[QUOTE=McTbone;36055283]Also, here's something everyone might find interesting. It's a photo of the same Vietcong commander moments before his execution.
[img]http://uppix.net/7/e/6/3ef584f33f0e56bc1deba84dcd211.jpg[/img]
[editline]22nd May 2012[/editline]
Oh dang, didn't realize it was late.[/QUOTE]
This wasn't posted in the thread before.
I am still having those pictures in my head how that guy is still breathing after that bullet hit his face.. It's horrible, I really hope he did not feel anything after the first few shots or went uncoscious.
I apologise if Chernobyl has already been covered in this thread.
[URL="http://englishrussia.com/2006/09/13/lost-city-of-chernobyl/"]http://http://englishrussia.com/2006/09/13/lost-city-of-chernobyl/[/URL]
Suitable music for the photos.
[video=youtube;-7O6LasKHfM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7O6LasKHfM[/video]
[QUOTE=Darkslicer;36056606]I am still having those pictures in my head how that guy is still breathing after that bullet hit his face.. It's horrible, I really hope he did not feel anything after the first few shots or went uncoscious.[/QUOTE]
It's possible for someone to be brain dead but their body is still "working"
You mean his reflex are still working, I'm not sure breath is part of it.
[QUOTE=Brickhead;36032882]Not a photo but hey, also all the other parts are just as shocking, but I found this one to be one of the worst especially at 3:20 or so.[video=youtube;4IMgtxG4kF8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IMgtxG4kF8&feature=relmfu[/video][/QUOTE]
Why did i watch that...
Fuck.
[QUOTE=Daddy_Waffle;36058117]Why did i watch that...
Fuck.[/QUOTE]
I stopped watching when people were being executed with hammers and power tools. I'm glad I did!
[QUOTE=Sixer;36055798]I finally found content!
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reminded me of this
[url]http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html[/url]
[quote]With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time - when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun. Collected here are a few of the hundreds of color images made available by the Library of Congress, which purchased the original glass plates back in 1948.[/quote]
[img]http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p02_00003991.jpg[/img]
[img]http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p06_00020154.jpg[/img]
[img]http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p11_00021478.jpg[/img]
pretty cool
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[img]http://newtribememphisdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/img_606x341_bid1312-saddamspiderhole-saddam-hussein-captured.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
wasn't this image used in gmod 9?
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[QUOTE=Griffster26;35619464]
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backing story?
[QUOTE=Crash15;36058788]
backing story?[/QUOTE]
[quote]How Life Begins; Lennart Nilsson, 1965
Lennart Nilsson began taking pictures of developing fetuses with an endoscope in 1957, and the 1965 publication of his photos in Life Magazine was a breakthrough in showing people where we all came from.[/quote]
[QUOTE=_Axel;36057763]You mean his reflex are still working, I'm not sure breath is part of it.[/QUOTE]
I don't entirely know how it works, but I've heard of doctors keeping brain dead patient's bodies "alive" (heart still beating and such) so that they can keep the organs alive longer so they can be donated.
[IMG]http://cdn.lightgalleries.net/4bd5ec04e0461/images/RPChad010-2.jpg[/IMG]
Mentally retarded child chained to a pole at a refugee camp.
[QUOTE=McTbone;36055283]Also, here's something everyone might find interesting. It's a photo of the same Vietcong commander moments before his execution.
[editline]22nd May 2012[/editline]
Oh dang, didn't realize it was late.[/QUOTE]
It's not late. People are probably remembering the actual execution photo and thinking they've seen this one already.
[QUOTE=Sixer;36055798]I finally found content! [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Group_of_workers_harvesting_tea_Chakva_Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg/685px-Group_of_workers_harvesting_tea_Chakva_Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
This was not originally a color photo, it was treated to have color later.
A few moments after Afghan and ISAF forces stormed the block tower and killed insurgent forces, thus ending the siege in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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NATO and Soviet aircraft intercept one another at high altitudes.
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[QUOTE=Daddy_Waffle;36058117]Why did i watch that...
Fuck.[/QUOTE]
It wasn't that bad but its amazing that the guy is still alive and not screaming after being shot so many times in the body.The shot in the face is pretty gruesome,I'm glad they managed to get that sign to cover it
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[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Chosin.jpg/747px-Chosin.jpg[/IMG]
Americans retreating in Korea moments after China entered the war with 150,000 soldiers massing towards them in the battle of Chosin reservoir
[IMG]http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/topics/armistice/armistice_pic1_lrg.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://media.cleveland.com/plain-dealer-library/photo/korean-war-ends-3a217bbf554bf103.gif[/IMG]
Armistice signed on July 27th, 1953.
[IMG]http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/vostok1-launch_1.jpg[/IMG]
Vostok-1 carrying soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space
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